Clinton attacks Obama's management style, but her own led to the failure

of the health care reform effort of 1993-1994, according to Brad DeLong who was then deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Clinton targets Obama's management style

(CNN) — Hillary Clinton is jumping at recent comments from rival Barack Obama during which the Illinois senator seemed to suggest he isn't exactly a details guy.

In an interview with Bloomberg Television, the New York Democrat said she was "taken aback" by Obama's admission that he wouldn't act like a "Chief Operating Officer" if he was elected president.

"I think it’s important that we have a president who understands that you have to run the government," she said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/16/clinton-targets-obamas-management-style/

Professor DeLong wasn't too impressed with Hillary's own managerial skills:

"Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.

So when senior members of the economic team said that key senators like Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have this-and-that objection, she told them they were disloyal. When junior members of the economic team told her that the Congressional Budget Office would say such-and-such, she told them (wrongly) that her conversations with CBO head Robert Reischauer had already fixed that. When long-time senior hill staffers told her that she was making a dreadful mistake by fighting with rather than reaching out to John Breaux and Jim Cooper, she told them that they did not understand the wave of popular political support the bill would generate. And when substantive objections were raised to the plan by analysts calculating the moral hazard and adverse selection pressures it would put on the nation's health-care system...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has already flopped as a senior administrative official in the executive branch--the equivalent of an Undersecretary. Perhaps she will make a good senator. But there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.

Posted by DeLong at June 7, 2003"
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001600.html

Same style as Bill then.

I bet it sinks her.

She waxes poetic about everyone getting along and he goes around the country making nasty comments. It's sad because I used to love Bill as president, now I'm starting to dislike him.

inspired by the belief that she can well manage a bureaucracy. Certainly, this exciting appeal is what all great campaigns are based on.

How'd that work out?

admits herself she learned a great deal.

If the people knew then what they know now. Hillary would probably have been sainted for her vision.

Now she's set herself up for being criticized for pretending she has management ability that isn't apparent to me.

the personal attacks that manipulate Obama's words make me sad. However, I think it gets her votes because a good amount of people will take things she says at face value, and all these negative remarks she is making about Obama will add up to a big vote difference.

Too bad the media never calls her on these disingenuous campaigning methods.

has been a washout.

companies or countries CEOs do and they are responsible for setting strategy and not getting bogged down in the day-to-day crap. Obama has this exactly right. If he has his head in the sand with all the day-to-day ops (which is the job of the COO versus the CEO)he won't be looking down the road and as a result won't be ready for what's ahead.